The Normans; told chiefly in relation to their conquest of England
Part 25
«Julius Cæsar, and the Organisation of the Roman Empire.» By W. WARD FOWLER, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.
«John Wyclif, Last of the Schoolmen and First of the English Reformers.» By LEWIS SERGEANT, author of "New Greece," etc.
«Napoleon, Warrior and Ruler, and the Military Supremacy of Revolutionary France.» By W. O'CONNOR MORRIS.
«Henry of Navarre, and the Huguenots of France.» By P. F. WILLERT, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
«Cicero, and the Fall of the Roman Republic.» By J. L. STRACHAN-DAVIDSON, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
«Abraham Lincoln, and the Downfall of American Slavery.» By NOAH BROOKS.
«Prince Henry (of Portugal) the Navigator, and the Age of Discovery.» By C. R. BEAZLEY, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
«Julian the Philosopher, and the Last Struggle of Paganism against Christianity.» By ALICE GARDNER.
«Louis XIV., and the Zenith of the French Monarchy.» By ARTHUR HASSALL, M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church College, Oxford.
«Charles XII., and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719.» By R. NISBET BAIN.
«Lorenzo de' Medici, and Florence in the 15th Century.» By EDWARD ARMSTRONG, M.A., Fellow of Queens's College, Oxford.
«Jeanne d'Arc. Her Life and Death.» By MRS. OLIPHANT.
«Christopher Columbus. His Life and Voyages.» By WASHINGTON IRVING.
«Robert the Bruce, and the Struggle for Scottish Independence.» By SIR HERBERT MAXWELL, M.P.
«Hannibal, Soldier, Statesman. Patriot; and the Crisis of the Struggle between Carthage and Rome.» By W. O'CONNOR MORRIS, Sometime Scholar of Oriel College, Oxford.
«Ulysses S. Grant, and the Period of National Preservation and Reconstruction, 1822-1885.» By LIEUT.-COL. WILLIAM CONANT CHURCH.
«Robert E. Lee, and the Southern Confederacy, 1807-1870.» By PROF. HENRY ALEXANDER WHITE, of the Washington and Lee University.
«The Cid Campeador, and the Waning of the Crescent in the West.» By H. BUTLER CLARKE, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
/To be followed by/:
«Moltke, and the Military Supremacy of Germany.» By SPENCER WILKINSON, London University.
«Bismarck. The New German Empire, How it Arose and What it Displaced.» By W. J. HEADLAM, M.A., Fellow of King's Collage.
«Judas Maccabæus, the Conflict between Hellenism and Hebraism.» By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, author of the "Jews of the Middle Ages."
«Henry V., the English Hero King.» By CHARLES L. KINGSFORD, joint-author of the "Story of the Crusades."
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS. NEW YORK AND LONDON.
TRANSCRIBER'S ENDNOTE.
In the List of Illustrations, corrected the page number for "OLD HOUSES, DÔL" to "265", and for the entry "FUNERAL OF EADWARD THE CONFESSOR", to "273".
Page 32: changed "literture" to "literature".
Page 40: "whenever-they" to "whenever they".
Page 101: "separted" to "separated".
Page 142: the beginning quotation mark removed from "The medical and philosophical schools ..."
Page 145: "almosts without number," to "almost without number,".
Page 161: opening quotation mark inserted before "First" in "The candidates swore: First,".
Page 174: the close quotation mark is missing from the paragraph beginning '1002. "In this year ...'. It is not entirely clear where it belongs; perhaps after 'evil.', where it has been placed.
Page 178: The passage "all England south of the Thames—East Anglia and Essex and London" seems wrong, as these areas are mostly north of the Thames.
Page 183: "out-grown" is retained, although "outgrown" appears in five places.
Page 222: "wordly" to "worldly".
Page 247: "chieftan" to "chieftain".
Page 320: "wordliness" to "worldliness".
Page 325: changed comma to period after "as the winter wore away", and period to comma after "was the most conspicuous event".
Page 370: the page number for "Mantes" is changed to 337.
Page 371: "victory ta Varaville" changed to "victory at Varaville".
Page 372: "war with Burgundy, 106, with Dreux, 108;" to "war with Burgundy, 106; war with Dreux, 108;". Also changed "Cnut's likeness to, 157; 278. 282, 306" to "Cnut's likeness to, 157, 278, 282, 306".
Page 373: "character, of, 64;" to "character of, 64;".